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Country Crossroads
How Arc You Feeling?
Be Prepared for Worse!
by KEITH GUTHRIE
HOW ARE YOU
FEELING?
I asked him: “How are you
feeling?”
And he replied, “Just fine”
And I went my way rejoicing -
His Woes were none of mine.
I asked her: “How are you feel-
ing?”
She heaved a dismal breath,
And poured in my ears a story
of headache, gout and death.
Each time I see him hobbling
past,
I ask as he goes by,
Just how the world is using
him.
To hear his brave reply.
But she - whenever I see her,
I say, “You’re looking fine”
And leave her to solve her pro-
blems,
Her head’s as good as mine.
-Frankie Guthrie
I guess my mother never
“Knew a man she didn’t like,”
or, at least, that she couldn’t
find something in them to write
about. The little poem above is
one of my favorites that she
penned long ago; but, then read
on and you’ll see that she “us-
ed” everyone who came to her
door in Berclair.
WHEN THERE’S
A KNOCK AT
THE DOOR
“A knock at the door is likely
to bring you a surprising new
line of thought. It came three
times at my door, today. Each
time it aroused my interest.
The first petitioner was a piano
tuner. Now, I had no piano to
tune, but I do have sympathy.
He was seeking the chance to
earn beefsteak and, maybe,
chocolate cake, for a family at
home. I stepped out for ten
minutes of conversation. From
the high cost of house rent, we
drifted to religion and some
religious leaders we both knew.
I felt better. I hope he did.
“My next visitor was an of-
fice seeker. Now, I always feel
at a disadvantage before a
politician. I hate to refuse a
favor, and I don’t feel honest
while promising to vote for
each contender. I believe that
there are four contestants out
Church
Directory
PRIMERAIGLESIA I
SACRED HEART
BAUTISTA
CATHOLIC CHURCH
526 North Highway 359 •
118 South Aransas
Reverend Qorso Maciel •
Father Henry Heese
•
ST. MARY'S ;
LAKE VIEW
BAPTIST :
BAPTIST
Corner of Duval & Laredo
F.M. 3024
Reverend John C. Caruthers l
•
GETHSEMANI
•
FIRST EVANGELICAL .*
PENTACOSTAL
LUTHERAN CHURCH ^
314 S. Atascosa
Orange Grove
Reverend Max Garcia
•
WEST SHORE
ARGENTA
BAPTIST CHAPEL
CHURCHOF CHRIST
F.M. 534 J
Off F.M. 888 & 1040
Pastor - Wright Price
Minister-Joe Wolf
•
• •
st. piusx :
FIRST BAPTIST
CATHOLIC CHURCH :
CHURCH
Sandia 1
404 South Bee
Father Seamus McGowan l
Reverend Clif Abshier
*
■
MENNONITE
CHURCH OF CHRIST
721 West San Patricio Ave. •
407 E. Rockport
Reverend Jose Calderon ;
Evangelist-Ken Chumbley
*
ST. JOHN OF THE ;
FIRST CHRISTIAN
CROSS CATHOLIC CHURCH I
CHURCH
Orange Grove l
308 E. St. Mary's
*
Minister-R.E. Bream
FAITH CHURCH, U.C.C. i
(Congregational) 1
ST. PATRICK
Evangelical & Reform l
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Highway 624, Orange Grove *
Father Louis Joseph
'
Old San Patricio
LAKESIDE •
BAPTIST CHURCH
UNITED METHODIST
F.M. 534
CHURCH
;
Corner of Duval & Hackberry
CHURCH OF CHRISTI
Rev. Mary E. Roper
Hwy. 624 West
Rev. Terry Dowdy
Orange Grove •
J EHOVAH'S WITNESS
CORPUS CHRISTI ABBEY *
East Fulton Street
Lake Arrowhead l
547-9303
Rt. Rev. Alfred Hoenig
LAKE CORPUS CHRISTI
OUR FATHER'S HOUSE ^
COMMUNITY CHURCH
F.M. 534 •*
Arrowhead Airport
Pastor Robert Gallagher *
FIRST BAPTIST
PEACE UNITED
CHURCH
Tynan ;
Sandia
Reverend John Donaldson l
Reverend Audie Morris
•
GRACE LUTHERAN I
BETHANIA TEMPLO
CHURCH' :
220 South Duval
Rev. Waldemar Wendel *
1205 East San Patricio ’
FIRST BAPTIST
CHURCH
TEMPLO BETHEL
Orange Grove
1400 East San Patricio ;■
ST. PAUL LUTHERAN
MT. PISGAH *;
Rev. Waldemar Wendel
BAPTIST CHURCH
Left on F.M. #796
Duval & Pecan Streets
Tynan
547-2074 I-
Rev. H.E. Young l
HARMONY ASSEMBLY
.1
OF GOD
SWINNEY SWITCH !
Reverend Malcolm Doerr
BAPTIST I
219 South Aransas
(Next door to •
Fire Station) I
.
Rev. Jack Brundidge •
•
This Church Directory published
courtesy of the following •
Mathis businesses:
Western Auto
Sunrise Beach Campground !
Hub Pharmacy -
Jimson’s Department Store !
Mathis Grain and
Elevator Corp.
Villarreal Mercantile Co.
for county judge. I know and
like them all, but can only vote
for one. The visitor however,
did not solicit my vote. He did
better. He told me what a fine
column I wrote and asked that I
remind Berclair voters that he,
and nearly all the other can-
didates, were coming out for a
last chance speech-making pro-
gram at the schoolhouse. Now,
I don’t have any idea what kind
of judge the visitor would
make, but he was smart enough
to get me all swelled up with
my own importance and
gambled on the chance of my
being honest enough to
reciprocate.
“And then there came
another knock, and another
visitor. A neighbor this time,
asking the co-operation of all
Berclair readers in a member-
ship drive for a newly launched
county library..
“I wonder what many of us
would do on long summer days,
long winter evenings, without a
detective yarn, a travel story, a
great novel, to help us over bad
places, lonely moments. I have
just read “Sailor on
Horseback,” which is the life of
Jack London. London’s “Call of
the Wild” fascinated me years
ago. As a young girl, I read it
aloud to my sister and little
brothers. I can see them yet,
grouped about, spellbound by
that marvelous tale...”
I think I’ll try to get as much
out of a day as my Mother
evidently did long ago. How
about you?
KEY TO PUZZLE
&
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sglM economy
PUZ-7.Lt
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Dear Readers:
It is with much regret that I
have decided to tender my
resignation as Editor of the
Mathis News.
I will be going into my own
business and remain living in
Bulletin Board
(For notices of meetings or brief announcements,
please use the Bulletin Board. Call Lee at 547-3274.)
Octoberfest, Oct. 2 & 3, will
be held at Bier Garten at the
German-American
Restaurant, Hwy. 29, three
miles west of Buchanan Dam,
Texas, phone #512-793-2402. It is
co-sponsored by Lake
Buchanan Chamber of Com-
merce, Buchanan Dam, Texas,
phone #512-793-2803.
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A South Texas Weed Control
Symposium has been scheduled
for Oct. 7 at the Nueces County
Memorial Agricultural Center,
according to Dr. John Bremer,
program coordinator.
The event will start at 9 a.m.
and wind up at mid-afternoon,
said Bremer, Extension weed
specialist at the Corpus Christi
Research and Extension
Center.
He said the program should
be of particular concern to all
farmers of cotton, grain
sorghum and corn, on whose
weed problems the symposium
will focus.
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The Houston-Harris County
Fair Association will sponsor
one of the world’s richest calf
roping, team roping, and barrel
race jackpots when it presents
the Roy Cooper World Classic
Roping October 16-18 at the
Pasadena, Texas Fairgrounds,
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Victoria Open Youth Horse
Show: October 10, 1981 - 9:00
a.m. (Registration-8:00a.m.);
Community Center (indoor
arena), 2905 E. North Street,
Victoria, Texas 77901; Entry
Fee: $4.00 per class, $4.50 post
entry per class, entries close -
noon, Oct. ???, 1981, no refunds
(for any reason); Make checks
payable to: Rough Riders 4-H
Club.
Buckles will be given for the
high point awards: one in the
junior division and one in the
senior division. Bronze initial-
ed spurs will be presented in
each division to high point run-
ner up. Monogrammed horse
coolers will be given for each
first place and trophies 2nd
through 6th places.
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The annual conference of
District IV of the Texas
Library Association will be
held Friday and Saturday,
Sept. 25 and 26 in V ictoria.
Annaville. This should allow
me to spend more time with my
family.
There are no words to ade-
quately express my gratitude
to the Mathis and Lake com-
munities for their warm
hearted, open cooperation and
support. I have made many
friends here and, of course, my
family is here in Mathis, so I
will be coming back often.
Thank you for this very
enriching and rewarding ex-
perience.
My last day on the job is Fri-
day, September 25th, and I
would be very honored if you
would stop by so I may visit
with you personally.
My best wishes to all of you
and to my employers, Jim Sr.,
Jimmy, and John Tracy of San
Patricio Publishing Company
inSinton.
Sincerely yours,
Sandy Tennill
Watchdog
Been to the supermarket
lately?
Those prices are something,
aren’t they?
Only four or five years ago, a
twenty-dollar bill would buy
your family a pretty fair sack of
groceries. But going to the su-
permarket today with $20 in
your pocket is like going ele-
phant hunting with a fly swatter
— you’re not going to bring
much home.
Last year, Texas families
spent $37 billion to put supper
on the table. That’s more than
$2,600 each for every man,
woman and child among us, and
it just keeps going up. This year,
prices are rising another percent-
age point every single month.
Somebody’s making a killing.
But who?
The truth is that our food
economy is badly out of whack.
The farmers that produce the
food are being paid too little,
while those of us who buy the
food are being charged too
much. Here’s a little poem that
says it all:
This little piggy went to market
See WATCHDOG, Page 5
One of the happy times for
children, during my
Depression growing up days,
was the neighbor-family ice
cream get-to-gether. We didn’t
have these affairs often,
because sugar was way up
there close to five cents per
pound, eggs at ten cents per
dozen, and fifty pound block of
ice would set you back
something like two-bits.
When we did throw such a
bash, a neighbor or so would
bring their two gallon freezer,
and their kids. The host always
furnished everything else.
Keeping the kids knocked
back out of the mix was one of
the big problems, but finally
the womenfolk would get the
ingredients ready and the men
would put huge chunks of ice in
a tow-sack, and pound it with a
single bit axe, or hammer,
until the chunks were reduced
in size to fit into the freezer
bucket.
There was never a problem
in getting some one to turn the
crank handle. All the boys
wanted that honor, so we stood
in line until our turn came.
Being the smallest, I was
always last and by the time I
was in line to turn, the cream
was frozen so hard that I
couldn’t, so everybody
laughed, and I retired to the
shadows, until the womenfolk
arrived on the scene to open the
freezer.
Salt for the freezing was had
by getting what was needed
from last year’s meat box,
where the family meat supply
had been burried in salt for
preserving. The first time that
I ever bought salt for ice cream
making, I thought that The
Great Apostaey had begun.
The grownfolk were served
first. A serving was a bowlfull,
regardless of the size of the
bowl. Usually, by the time the
children were served, the
bowls were smaller, but even
so, most everybody always had
all they could eat.
We ate so fast, until soon we
were suffering excruciating
pains above the eye brows. It
didn’t occur to us that we could
be doing anything wrong. We
thought that head pains went
with eating ice cream, and with
w
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In 1976, the Texas Attorney
General ruled that livestock
and poultry were not “farm
products,” and therefore pro-
ducers of meat in Texas were
liable for property (ad
valorem) taxation, unlike the
producers of all other food pro-
ducts.
Since that ruling, some tax-
ing entities in Texas have
levied property taxes against
livestock and poultry pro-
ducers, while others have not.
Many school districts have
determined that it would cost
them more to administer such
a program than they could
recover in additional taxes.
Currently, the levying of pro-
perty taxes on livestock and
poultry is highly inequitable
and inconsistent and amounts
to an insignificant one-fourth of
one percent of such tax
revenues.
Where such taxes are levied,
the cost of production is of
course increased. If this situa-
tion is not remedied, some pro-
ducers may find themselves at
such a competitive disadvan-
tage that they may feel they
must move into production of
other more profitable food
items, thus decreasing produc-
tion statewide. Generally,
decreased production has
resulted in increased consumer
prices.
After the 67th Legislature
considered this problem, the
Texas House of Represen-
tatives unanimously passed
legislation which will correct
the situation if Proposition 5 is
approved this fall.
Proposition 5 on the
November ballot, one of seven
proposed Constitutional
Amendments being offered
Texas voters, will correct the
inequity of this situation by
mandating that livestock and
poultry be considered the same
as all other farm products as
exempt from property taxes.
This will mean that grocery
store prices for these items will
no longer reflect additional pro-
duction costs caused by such
taxation. Therefore, approval
of Proposition 5 at the polls is
one step we can take to help
hold down rising food costs.
What Proposition 5 does:
* Includes livestock and
poultry with other farm pro-
ducts as exempt from property
(ad valorem) taxation.
* Will assure fair, uniform
tax treatment for all Texas
food producers.
* Will encourage a healthy
livestock and poultry industry
in Texas, which will contribute
to increasing the vitality of the
state’s overall economy, thus
increasing overall tax reveues
from many other sources.
* Will be a positive step in
helping hold down rising
grocery costs.
Cast your vote to help hyoid
the line on our grocery costs!
Vote November 5 for Proposi-
tion 5!
Highlights and Sidelights
/.
AUSTIN — The folks
who pencil the state budget
are waiting for Congress to
pass a number of appropria-
tions bills so Texas can learn
how much federal aid it will
lose.
Federal money flows into
several state and city agen-
cies, particularly education
and human services, and loss
of those dollars has officials
worried.
In August, Congress man-
dated cuts totaling $35 bil-
lion in federal aid, but no
one will know exactly how
much money Texas will lose
until individual appropria-
tions for specific programs
are approved.
The losses will be identi-
fied sometime in October.
Texas Municipal League
director Dick Brown pre-
dicted last week that Texas
cities will lose at least $223
million, including some $136
million for Comprehensive
Employment Training Act
(CETA) grants.
Also cut will be municipal
public works projects and
wastewater treatment con-
struction.
Public Education
Some Texas educators
told members of the newly-
appointed Select Committee
on Public Education that if
the feds are going to cut
back dollars, they should
also eliminate costly federal
rules as well.
Texas could lose from 10
percent up to 25 percent of
the $700 million in federal
funds now directed for edu-
cation.
A Dallas superintendent
told the panel headed by Lt.
Gov. Bill Hobby that his
school district reduced its
staff by 600 employees and
cut $16 million from the
budget to avoid raising local
taxes.
The Legislature
Unless some special issue
catches the attention of Gov.
Bill Clements such as an-
other try at repealing the
state’s ad valorem tax for
college construction, he will
probably not call the legis-
lature into special session.
Should the governor decide
to call another special ses-
sion, lawmakers could also
attend to . the problem of
easing the federal cuts, if
Clements decided to add this
task to the special call.
More likely, the Legisla-
ture, during the next regular
session, will face the tricky
task of finding extra state
dollars for human services
and social programs or cut-
ting back in those areas.
Lions Club Camp
It’s not as easy to reduce
funding as taxpayers might
think: somebody always
by LYNDELL WILLIAMS
owns the proverbial ox which
is getting gored.
Last week the State Com-
mission for the Blind ended
its financial support for a
program at the Lions Club
Camp for the blind at Kerr-
ville, a cutback of over
$200,000.
A spokesman for the
Lions Club, which put up
almost as much money for
the program as the state,
vowed the state’s 43,000
members would not “roll
over and play dead.”
“You can train a dog, but
you don’t see too many
trained cats,” he quipped.
SWT President
Robert L. Hardesty, a
former top aide to Lyndon
B. Johnson, was named last
week as president of South-
west Texas State University
by the Texas State Univer-
sity System regents. Hardes-
See HIGHLIGHTS. Page 5
Sketching
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us, they did.
Soon we would begin to get
chilly, but that didn’t stop us
either. Soon, our heads would
be hurting, and we would be
shivering like mad, with a few
teeth chatters heard here and
there.
The first time that I ever
tasted factory-made ice
cream, I couldn’t believe it.
The smooth creamy texture,
the delightful, just-right taste.
I did a bit of looking into this
matter, since I had an “inside”
source who worked at
Pangburn’s Creamery in Ft.
Worth. He said that they shot
the egg whites to the mix., and
kept the air hose going while
the stuff frooze.
This inspired me. I had
courage to press on. I
remembered one night when
we were coming home from a
neighbor’s where we had
gorged on ice cream, that
Mama said to Papa, “that
woman used skim milk to
make that ice cream.” Dad
said that he noticed that it did
taste like “blue John,” a term
they used to describe milk, fit
only for the pigs.
Right away, I began to put
two and two together, as they
say, and came up with my own
version of ice cream making. It
worked. One of the few ideas
that I ever had that did.
My recipe was something
like this: Beat six egg whites to
the consistency of meringue;
v/hip one pint of whipping
cream to a point just before it
See SKETCHING, Page 5
Vote For Proposition 5 In November
By Vote 5 Committee, Austin, Texas
This Week
In Mathis
THURSDAY, Sept. 24
1:30 p.m. - Weber work session room 211
2 p.m. - Storytime at Mathis Public Library
7 p.m. - Firemen at fire station
6:30 p .m. - Cub Scouts
FRIDAY, Sept. 25
7:30 p.m. - American Legion meeting
MONDAY, Sept. 28
7 p.m. - Boy Scout Troop 4,223 W. San Patricio
8 p.m. - Crossrods Group, First State Bank Community
Room
TUESDAY, Sept. 29
9:30 a.m. - Legal Aid, 300 W. Fulton
12 noon - Rotary Club at Ranch Motel Restaurant
1:30 p .m. - Intermediate work session, room 1
5 p.m. - Boy Scouts at 700 Stone St.
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 30
6:30 p.m. - Kiwanis Club at Curlee’s Restaurant
1:30- Hardin work session, room 14.
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